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Known also as stone agw ‘parietal art’
Most cave art is found in shallow rock shelters.
Stone Age Art
The oldest known rock art in the world
Bhimbetka Petroglyphs
Artifact was a product of natural erosion rather than a deliberate human art of Creativity
Venus of Berekhat Ram
Represent the earliest surviving examples of the artistic expression
Halls of Bulls Cave Painting
Chinese ceramics from Late Paleolithic Culture
Amur River Basin Pottery
Sculpted in soft clay.
Tuc d’Audoubert Bison Sculpture
Art includes the paintint, sculpture, aechitecture
Based on perfect balance because it reflects the ideal world of Gods
Egyptian Art
Revolutionary style of Egyptian art created by Amenhoyep IV
Amarna Style
Are characterized by regularity and detailed depiction of human beings, heroic battles and nature
Wall paintings
Painting depicting his achievementbin his raid againts Muwatalli’s Hittite resurgent forces
Ramesses the Great and Battle of Dapur
Mummyfying the dead is also sacred ritual in preparation to the afterlife
Mummification Wall paintings
Containing spells to help the dead back to life after journey to the underworld
Book of the Dead Wall Paintings
Funeral wall paintings
“Weighing scale”
This is regarded as one of the most copied works on Ancient Egypt
Nefertiti Bust
Characterized with two dimensional pieces and statuary, symmetry, size, hierarchy, symbolism
Most art was created not for public viewing but functioned to protect and provide for the spirit of the deceased.
Egyptian Sculptures
Two massive huge stone statues
Colossi of Memnon (18m)
With glass inlaid eyes make the statue more realistic
Seated statues of Rahotepnand nofret
Statues like this were buried in tombs, wrapped in cloth.
Wrapped Osiris
Depicted the performance of burial rites and rituals
Egyptian Funerary, Deity, and Ritualistic Art
Discovered by Howard Carter
Is an ancient death mask
Tutankhamuns’s ‘Golden Death Mask’
Ancient Egyptian Artworks created to do with their religion and ritualistic practices
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Was below ground protected the body and spirit
Burial Chamber
Was above ground was accessible to visitors who would performed.
Mortuary Chapel
Before the pyramids, the valley became a royap burial ground for pharaohs
The Valley of the Egyptian Kings and Queens
Establish a connections between the worlds of the living and then dead
False Doors of the Royal Sealer Neferiu
Echoes the shape of the mummified body
Anthropoid coffin
Were rectangular boxes with flat lids
Anthropoid Sarcophagus
Is the spirit of Ra, which encapsulates the concept of light
Mut-who has died but has not been transfigured in light
Akh
Represented as a human headed bird
Ba
Is the life force of spiritual double of the person
Ka
One of the most important goddesses
Isis
Considered the oldest child of the earth
‘Osiris’ The King of the Living
Also spelled Ra or Pra in Ancient Egyptian religion, ‘god of the sun and radiance
‘Ra’ or ‘Re’
Known as the God of Vengeance
Horus
Translated to the hidden one’ is the god of air, sun and creation
‘Amun Ra’
Located on the Giza plateau ,the pyramids was built during the reign of King Khufu
Khufu and Hemiunu the physician was alsi the architect of this Pyramid
The Great Pyramid of Giza
Developly roughly 3000 years ago and characteized by post and lintel construction
Most houses were built of clay or baked bricks
Egyptian Architecture
Was inspired by distinct ideas drom earliest builders carved columns from enormous blocks of limestone, sandstone and granite
Egyptian Columns
One of the great ancient Egyptian who lived over 4,000 yrs ago to resemble bundle reeds and other plant forms
Architect Imhotep
The first royal tomb before the pyramid was called?
Mastabas
One of the most significant architecture not only to Egyptians but to Western Civilization are a remarkable feat engineering of Alexander the Great
Temple of Ramesseum
Combined logographics, syllabic and alphabetic elements with more than 100ndistinct characters
Formal writing systems used in Ancient Egypt
Hieroglyphs
Used for writing administrative documents
Hieratic
Primarily for letters and tax records?
Demotic
Used for literary and common writing
Coptic
A granodiorite stele discovered in 1799
With 3 version texts. The top is in hieratic script, middle in demotic script, while the bottom is coptic greek
Rosetta Stone
Wore necklaces, bracelets and jewelry
Egyptian Jewelry
City of Cliffs
Nabatean Architecture
Is a member of and Ancient Arabian People
Nabatean
metal casted, carved jewelry work was quite sophisticated even in the Old Kingdom, as demonstrated by some highly creative pieces depicted specially in tomb scenes.
Tutankhamun’s lunar pectoral
21st century engineering during the ancient
period of Al Kazneh in Petra was built possibly
as early as fifth century BCE by the Nabataeans
and was discovered in 1812 by a Swiss explorer?
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
the most frequently found within excavated Nabataean archaeological sites. There have been nearly 900 rock-cut tombs found in Petra and Hegra.
Nabataean structures especially tombs are primarily ?
Rock Cut Tombs
Another most prominent rock-cut facades within the Petra Archaeological Park synthesized with the advanced set of skills and techniques
Palace Tomb
